Congo and Burundi expected to sign new Nile water treaty
CAIRO: Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are expected to sign the Nile Cooperative Framework Agreement that Egypt and Sudan are opposed to and have refused to recognize.…
Farah Pandith in Egypt to build on Obama's US-Muslim relations pledge
CAIRO: Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the United States Department of State Farah Pandith arrived in Egypt Tuesday to build on President Barack Obama’s Cairo speech last year, the…
Oil above $75; Asian demand offsets Greece downgrade
SINGAPORE: Oil held steady above $75 on Tuesday as prospects for rising demand in emerging economies offset concern about the impact of Europe's debt crisis. Spain admitted on Monday that…
Iran oil discovery has 30 bln barrels in place, says report
TEHRAN: Iran has discovered 30 billion barrels of in place oil in a southwestern oilfield that borders Iraq, the Jomhuri-ye Eslami newspaper reported on Tuesday. "An Iranian company along with…
Value-Added Energy in Qatar
DOHA: After establishing itself as the world's leading supplier of liquid natural gas (LNG) products, Qatar is now targeting its resources towards its own domestic market. Long focused on exports,…
New Iranian Sanctions May Impact UAE Markets
DUBAI: The effects of the new United Nations Security Council sanctions against Iran will be felt far beyond Tehran , in the United Arab Emirates . Despite not always seeing…
Saudi telecoms watchdog sees IT spend slow down
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's telecoms watchdog said it expects spending on IT products and software to slow down in the next few years, with analysts citing a saturated telecoms market and…
Defusing the Gaza flashpoint
WASHINGTON, DC: Last February at the Brookings Institution's US-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a passionate speech calling for an end to the…
Who lost Europe?
CAMBRIDGE: Financial meltdown has been averted in Europe — for now. But the future of the European Union and the fate of the eurozone still hang in the balance. If…
A new strategic divide in the region
In the past, I have argued in these virtual pages that problems between Turkey and Israel should not be considered as one-off events. There are structural reasons for tensions to…